Noontime News Roundup – December 18th, 2012

After meeting at the White House for 45 minutes on Monday, President Obama made House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) a new offer this evening, one that significantly bridges the gap between the two sides in hopes of reaching a deal to avert the so-called fiscal cliff.

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator, has completed its first three years worth of proton runs and won’t be doing any more until 2015, according to an announcement Monday from the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), the scientific body in charge of the device.

Hawaii Democrat Daniel Inouye, the Senate’s senior member, died at a Bethesda, Md., hospital Monday. He was 88 years old and was suffering from a respiratory ailment. The Japanese-American was known for his heroism in World War II and for breaking racial barriers.

The Queen has become the first monarch since 1781 and American war of independence to attend cabinet, where she sat in on a full-length discussion of the political and military situation in Afghanistan and advised ministers that the Queen’s speech next year should be shorter rather than longer.

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